My other passion, besides writing fiction, is music. For most of my life, flute has been my primary instrument, and it still is I suppose, but I’ve also been focusing a lot on guitar and singing over the past six years. I’ve been writing tunes and songs, and hope to put out a couple of albums (one with songs, one with instrumental tunes) soon.
But I like all sorts of music. Here are examples of some of the stuff I’m working on these days:
↑ Singing and guitaring—here with my friend Lucy Jankowski, on violin, doing our cover of “Teardrop” by Massive Attack.
↑ Improvising random stuff on the flute.
↑ “Flutelooping”: Using the looping pedal to create layers on flute, often incorporating other instruments as well. The above is a fluteloop session built on a tune I wrote called “Rupert Street”.
↑ Flutedrumming. My word for doing percussion with the flute.
↑ Attempting to play piano and flute at the same time.
I'm also teaching myself violin, but it will be a while before I can play without causing the cats to run for cover!!!
To hear more of my music and/or to watch episodes of my video podcast (which is about me trying to combine my interests in writing and music), check out my YouTube channel:
You can also..
***For info on the musical duo Misty Mountain Accord, click here.***
***For The Pound Dogs, click here.***
***For The Art of Joinery, click here.***
***For the Acoustic Vibration Appreciation Society (AVAS), click here.***